This is a guide for those seeking Vulkan support on their Southern Islands or Volcanic Islands graphic cards. Another name is Radeon HD 7000 series and Rx 200 series. Basically the open source drivers by default use Radeon for these graphic cards, which has no RADV for vulkan support. The AMDGPU-PRO drivers have Vulkan, but you may find that applications like Kodi will segfault for a bug that AMD refuses to pay attention to. To fix this we need to switch over to the AMDGPU driver, which is not to be confused with the AMDGPU-PRO driver.

Before continuing this guide please install Oibaf PPA for the latest open source drivers. You may or may not need it, but just in case I would suggest you install it. Mint 19 comes with fairly new open source drivers but I'd install this anyway. https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/l ... cs-drivers

Also, be aware at the time of writing this guide, Oibaf PPA needs this to get it to work.

For sake of clarity, Please explain the difference between the driver sets, and why one would chose the non-pro driver. To be honest, I myself have no idea what the non pro driver is designed for.

AMDGPU and Radeon are kinda like driver packages in that they contain many things. Both have RadeonSi which is the OpenGL driver for GCN cards, but AMDGPU has RADV which is the open source vulkan driver. AMDGPU-PRO is built on top of the open source drivers with AMD's proprietary code added to it, including their own Vulkan driver. AMD's proprietary Vulkan driver is now open source and called AMDVLK, which means AMDGPU users will have two choices for a Vulkan driver, the community built RADV and the AMD supported AMDVLK. Which one you choose to use is up to you. Also, as you can see AMD will eventually stop making the AMDGPU-PRO driver in favor of the open source drivers, eventually.

Thanks alot! I also tried this and it worked for me too on LM 19 i was searching for hours finally sadly there is no official ati drivers which would make it much easier! My desktop now works perfect surfing speed increased and also watching videos is way faster than before.